Capital One fits a Ferris wheel seat, street art into their Loop Shop

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The office houses product management staffers, designers, engineers and others who work on credit-card partnerships. This space, in part, is designed to win over those types of talent. “Banks have a certain perception out there in the industry,” said Drew Jacobs, senior director of product for card partnerships at Capital One. “We like to think of ourselves a little differently.”

Capital One’s “Shop” is a creative space for employees to design and test new products, floors above the bank's main downtown offices. The Gensler-designed space at 77 W. Wacker Drive offers sweeping views, startup-inspired collaboration spaces and, of course, a lot of snacks. Capital One and Gensler took us for a tour.